12/07/2012

Obama wants to go over "Fiscal Cliff"?

It sure looks like Obama wants to go over the fiscal cliff. Apparently he just thinks that the Republicans will get blamed so he has no intent on really negotiating. During the campaign he asked for $800 billion in tax increases. Republicans offered him that and now he wants $1.6 trillion. From The Hill newspaper:

“This isn’t a progress report, because there’s no progress to report,” Boehner said in a brief press conference at the Capitol. He said the White House had “wasted another week” by not responding to House Republicans. . . . .